Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-25 Thread Denys Nykula
25 November 2020, 04:01:13, by "Mayuresh" : > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:34:41PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > > One of my requirements is to edit MSOffice documents on office.com. Would > > > it work with that? Aren't web-based msoffice tools actively supporting macOS Safari?

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-24 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:34:41PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > One of my requirements is to edit MSOffice documents on office.com. Would > > it work with that? > > I think it is an unreasonable expectation. > First you speak with much "lighter" browser and then come up with this. Not an

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Mayuresh wrote: wip/arcticfox would be nice to start giving it a try. I think it would be nice! perhaps sooner or later I shall try to do it. A long time since I got myself dirty there, pkgin is so convenient. I'm sensing if there is interest, I hope... that a small community could gather.

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-23 Thread Bodie
On 23.11.2020 11:09, Sad Clouds wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 06:24:17 +0100 (CET) "Thomas Mueller" wrote: from Sad Clouds: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:29:27 +0530 > Mayuresh wrote: > > In the interim, would appreciate any feedback on luakit or other > > alternatives (with JS support). > x86

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-23 Thread Sad Clouds
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 06:24:17 +0100 (CET) "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > from Sad Clouds: > > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:29:27 +0530 > > Mayuresh wrote: > > > > In the interim, would appreciate any feedback on luakit or other > > > alternatives (with JS support). > > > x86 running Linux and Opera

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-23 Thread Pedro Pinho
Den mån 23 nov. 2020 06:24Thomas Mueller skrev: > from Sad Clouds: > > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:29:27 +0530 > > Mayuresh wrote: > > > > In the interim, would appreciate any feedback on luakit or other > > > alternatives (with JS support). > > > x86 running Linux and Opera web browser. I gave up

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sad Clouds: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:29:27 +0530 > Mayuresh wrote: > > In the interim, would appreciate any feedback on luakit or other > > alternatives (with JS support). > x86 running Linux and Opera web browser. I gave up on Firefox years > ago. Unfortunately Opera don't provide

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Bodie
On 22.11.2020 18:11, Mayuresh wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 03:46:37PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Let me know if you want to play, help, try to compile it yourself or need a binary. Or maybe it could even go in pkgsrc I just tried *today* to compile on NetBSD/9.1 on my ThinkPad T30

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Mayuresh
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 03:46:37PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Let me know if you want to play, help, try to compile it yourself or need a > binary. Or maybe it could even go in pkgsrc I just tried *today* to compile > on NetBSD/9.1 on my ThinkPad T30 (Pentium4M) and it comes up fine...

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Mayuresh wrote: Periodically, the topic of alternatives to firefox, particularly lightweight ones but with JS support, keeps coming. E.g. threads [1] of 2016 and [2] of 2018 and this of 2020. I think these "voices" will come up over and over, given the "trends" of the mozilla foundation

Re: Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:29:27 +0530 Mayuresh wrote: > In the interim, would appreciate any feedback on luakit or other > alternatives (with JS support). x86 running Linux and Opera web browser. I gave up on Firefox years ago. Unfortunately Opera don't provide binaries for NetBSD, but you could

Firefox alternatives with JS : luakit?

2020-11-22 Thread Mayuresh
Periodically, the topic of alternatives to firefox, particularly lightweight ones but with JS support, keeps coming. E.g. threads [1] of 2016 and [2] of 2018 and this of 2020. I think luakit is a new alternative not figuring in those threads. I'd be giving it a try on RPI SBC device, after my VM